Aphex Twin classic or Dud?

Track is just OK, boilerplate Aphex, I was hoping that by this point he'd be doing something a bit different, after the long break he had I thought maybe he'd return with an LP of piano music like the tracks on Drukqs, but happy enough to have him around putting stuff out even if he isn't quite at his peak anymore. Cheetah was nice enough.

The video is fucking great though, it's not like it has any completely new ideas, but I've not seen gants graf x cyriak before and it just works, really looks like something that should exist in 2018.

oh really? i thought that looked old-hat as well. fwiw, i don't think RDJ is old-hat!

definitely seems to be keeping up with the OPNs and James Ferraros of the world there

tbh I think his new stuff is probably the most technically challenging and complex work he's ever done, it just doesn't really engage me like his previous work does. Syro was definitely one of those albums I thought was pretty rad on release but never really wanted to hear again after the first couple months. Then again drukqs was like that and I love that album now so who knows

it is definitely super technical but also it sounds like yet another refinement of a sound that started as far back as Druqks. At this point i can play a 'typical Aphex tune' in my head - detuned sinewaves, squelchy acidy noises and drilly rhythms bouncing all over the place, and that's sort of what he does now

its almost like you could write a program to just spit 'em out

after the long break he had I thought maybe he'd return with an LP of piano music like the tracks on Drukqs

This was my hope, as well (love those tracks)

I was a massive fan in the day, but haven’t really enjoyed his new stuff

I wish he would either evolve rhythmically or, yeah, make more Drukqs-esque electro-acoustic music.

biweekly reminder that the soundcloud dump still delivers

or, yeah, make more Drukqs-esque electro-acoustic music.

Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2

he hasn't been away that long has he?

Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2

I had hopes for this, but was disappointed

he hasn't been away that long has he?

two years since his last widely-available EP

Just listened to the new track... it definitely recalls classic Aphex, and has a propulsion that his other recent stuff has lacked (it’s no “Windowlicker,” though?)

My son heard it and made me replay the whole thing again while he watched the video, so maybe that’s something...

I just want more 4/4 stuff with pretty melodies again.

Once in college, I was sitting around stoned with my jamband/jazz/J. Tull/etc. loving roommate.... I put on I Care..., and he was totally entranced — “I think about music this way, too”

I wish he would either evolve rhythmically or, yeah, make more Drukqs-esque electro-acoustic music.

― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, August 7, 2018 3:10 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I mean it's not a wild leap or anything but he is doing new stuff here, the second half of the first section (of the video) is more rhythmically interesting than anything on Syro

Sounded pretty aphex by numbers to me on the first listen, video was great but I may never watch it again. Notable for the appearance at 1:50 and 4:00 of the Michael Faraday monument at Elephant and Castle, near where he used to live.

the video impressed me more than the track tbph

for (every aphex twin track)
{
wait (10);
printf('This is great - at last, an Aphex Twin track I can really engage with!');
wait (30);
printf('ehh never mind');
}

Song is cool
Video is trippy

Wish whoever made the video didnt use his logo so much

Illuminati cru is gonna go wild for the vid

or, yeah, make more Drukqs-esque electro-acoustic music.

Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2

Thanks, I had forgotten about that already (thought maybe it was part of the dump)

I mean it's not a wild leap or anything but he is doing new stuff here, the second half of the first section (of the video) is more rhythmically interesting than anything on Syro

True there is that crazy triplet-based shit, but it has the same busy, skittery effect.

For someone who is supposedly so experimental with gear I wonder if he is intentionally going back to some of his classic sounds here (those pads). Or...I read this interview with Taylor Deupree recently where he says that his friends make fun of him for buying new synths all the time and then making the same sound with each one, I wonder if that's what RDJ does.

Brimstead otm

he hasn't been away that long has he?
An album length AFX release a year ago.

has anyone parsed the Soundcloud dump into eras/albums/curated selections of 'good stuff'? I don't even know where to begin with that. I have tracks come up on shuffle a lot and yeah there are some pretty great tracks in there...

True there is that crazy triplet-based shit, but it has the same busy, skittery effect.

You say stagnation, I say refinement, etc. But yeah.

btw I listened to chink 101 (hmm) on a proper system for the first time last night ... hadn't realized it was a proper bass-heavy SAW 85-92 club ambient banger

How does one access the Soundcloud dump?

xxp yes I tried, got through the first 100+ tracks I think, I could maybe post my lists? I organized it by sound/feel for the most part.

It's quite possible, maybe even likely, that he's had this track sitting around for 15 years or so tbh.

would also be interested in recommendations and lists for the soundcloud dump - sleeve or anyone!

gimme 7-8 hours or so, I'll try and work something up. I have them organized into around a half dozen folders.

appreciated

morrisp I think there may be links upthread/under-the-fold to the Soundcloud files, worth a look anyway.

has anyone parsed the Soundcloud dump into eras/albums/curated selections of 'good stuff'? I don't even know where to begin with that. I have tracks come up on shuffle a lot and yeah there are some pretty great tracks in there...

DJ Food did a "best-of" mix - passed the download limit years ago but still streamable

Thx to all

yea sleeve that would be much appreciated

I remember someone making a "SAW 1.5" which I thought was a good idea

maybe I'm a bit of a codger but I don't really know what to do with 150+ disconnected tracks

oh, same. even if i were on a desert island with nothing but a 150+ afx filedump, i'd probably keep thinking "ugh, i'll start sorting out through this sometime next week" until i was rescued or started talking to the volleyball

I got as far as 4 cdr's - interesting, but you know: other music is available

I wonder who's got more hours of music out there now, Aphex or Autechre

I wonder who has more ILM threads!

Track is excellent Aphex but wow that video is a fucking trip.

There's lots of good stuff in the dump, you really don't need to look hard..

I will get to this list thing in the next few hours, I promise. feel free to hassle me if not.

here are some faves from the earliest sets he dumped, really only covers about 1/4. there's more great stuff in that 1/4 too!!

suzanne
symbonsad
red alert
sams car
martins car lpf
mental telepathy
donkey rhubarb remix
with my family
high hats tune tamclap orig
2tone[camborne college mix]

symbonsad
red alert

^i think both of these have been previously released though? isn't one of them the q-chastic track off that one comp?

btw I listened to chink 101 (hmm) on a proper system for the first time last night ... hadn't realized it was a proper bass-heavy SAW 85-92 club ambient banger

― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Wednesday, August 8, 2018 8:26 AM (nine hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's weird how it has those clangy ICBYD/Ventolin type breakbeat drums, though, isn't it? i'd listen to it more but those high frequencies are kind of painful for me

nah I like them. I might have lost the frequencies you're complaining about.

here's my rough category groupings of (some of) the Soundcloud tracks.

these have my own numbering prefix that I added as the tracks came out so I could keep track of them.

grouped into 8 highly subjective categories: ambient, dance, fast/busy, harsh, mid tempo, pretty, slow, weird

ambient:
061 11 early morning clissold.mp3
107 4 red calx(slo).mp3
111 4 Red Calx.mp3
140 th1 (slo).mp3
163 33 SAW II un stabbing interview.mp3
164 9 un chopped f beginning (SAWII un).mp3
173 5 just fall asleep.mp3
179 35 SAW II un road shimmer f.mp3

dance:
011 SomewhereOTTGTBAG.mp3
085 (vocoderdisco).mp3
133 d15-8 ny groove2.mp3

fast/busy:
004 quad rave TEAC.mp3
012 thnxU4letinMeStyWitU.mp3
016 red alert.mp3
017 16 fresher + cleaner.mp3
028 17 kids beach.mp3
030 1 human rotation.mp3
031 6 Plinky Plonk[orig].mp3
032 8 knife fork freq.mp3
035 dance2thebeat.mp3
042 2 xame filtered.mp3
044 4 ACH.mp3
049 7 clapstab ab6.mp3
065 1 p-string.mp3
070 ep string.mp3
080 14 modular acid.mp3
087 6 fly beats.mp3
100 37 off key [bicycle wheel].mp3
118 phase acid.mp3
119 hypersquij.mp3
120 4 bonkophone2.mp3
126 prncDMC.mp3
127 4 frequency transmitter.mp3
130 33 jonny hawkes broken guitar[not finished].mp3
146 carn marth remix.mp3
147 (mature raver).mp3
149 23 lush acid.mp3
150 5 heliosphan live.mp3
152 179brk2.mp3
154 T08+4.mp3
161 (HAB un23).mp3
162 lannerlog.mp3
166 3 s-tral.mp3
168 1.5 dp5 beats.mp3
170 32 venus squidge.mp3
171 6 RANDOM FX.mp3
172 5 african rhyt.mp3
184 Medievil Rave Mk2.mp3

harsh:
010 24 squalitude acid.mp3
019 GPO beat.mp3
040 cooltempoDemo.mp3
046 17 Alis Trak[brain floss mix].mp3
050 8 world waver ab6.mp3
078 2 pcp 2 [unreleased version].mp3
079 23 moodular3[live gig]_soundcloud_188328563.mp3
081 9 leeds orbit[live]_soundcloud_188329063.mp3
094 8 metal beat.mp3
095 24 afx 71 1.mp3
102 6 step up to cornwall.mp3
104 4 how to science ab6.mp3
105 5 how to science 2 ab6.mp3
106 2 dual acid ab6.mp3
114 9 100m 2 (leeds orbit).mp3
115 23 100m 3 (moodular).mp3
125 5 strange rhythm.mp3
128 16 shit squidge.mp3
159 (mortal1).mp3
160 mortal 08.mp3
180 24 Triple D.mp3
181 25 rogphlange 1.mp3
182 36 Shroommdot [miCro3] [8th dimension transmission].mp3
187 13 Phukup2.mp3

mid tempo:
001 8 utopia.mp3
002 original chaos riff.mp3
003 22 pearls.mp3
006 bimbongo.mp3
009 1 chink 101.mp3
014 symbonsad.mp3
015 sallyVingoe.mp3
018 Afx origTheme.mp3
020 pump the shit.mp3
021 plinkyplonk.mp3
025 40 lannerlush full.mp3
026 39 fnkmg.mp3
027 Renalgade Sonar.mp3
029 martins car LPF.mp3
033 mooow [Dixons Theft mix].mp3
034 mental telepathy.mp3
037 glockenspiel TEAC.mp3
056 3 gerald remix.mp3
057 12 rough beat tune.mp3
058 13 high hats tune tamclap orig.mp3
059 16 bpjdrop forge.mp3
064 21 hapshifter1.mp3
067 15 bradley jam pump.mp3
068 1 70`s tune.mp3
069 2tone [camborne college mix].mp3
072 dance and play.mp3
077 nova robotiks.mp3
086 4 ny groove.mp3
101 21 forgotten T.mp3
116 bell bass (ep string).mp3
117 vibert remix 5 edit max c.mp3
119 fmsubBass.mp3
122 9 wind squidge.mp3
123 bob morgan.mp3
124 subCan.mp3
129 19 bradley echoes.mp3
136 33 synthi rhy [q].mp3
141 (taut).mp3
145 14 floating .mp3
151 notting hill bus.mp3
155 cottage3 e.mp3
176 30 ms short.mp3
178 18 ssbA.mp3
185 6 Gear Smudge.mp3
186 6 Backdrop Trigger.mp3
189 19 Winding Road.mp3

pretty:
041 19 ssnb.mp3
051 11 donkey rhubarb remix.mp3
052 18 with my family _.mp3
053 1 nocares.mp3
093 26 5 (demo).mp3
096 7 cutting.mp3
099 28 organ epic.mp3
112 5 Girl Boy Dark Version.mp3
131 37 last clissold maybe.mp3
132 15 sekonda.mp3
137 (watery big ez).mp3
139 th1.mp3
142 blue carpet.mp3
156 cottage4 af 1.mp3
157 4 acid organ.mp3
158 18 mello punchy.mp3
167 23 pianox.mp3
183 1 Lmt.mp3

slow:
005 suzanne.mp3
007 20 pink floyd.mp3
008 parking lot.mp3
022 sams car.mp3
024 10 bcr78.mp3
045 14 07 b.mp3
047 20 vtnm.mp3
048 21 vtnm2.mp3
054 7 ∂ƒ∆ [rough mix].mp3
055 2 ∂ƒx 126b.mp3
060 71 1st bank trac.mp3
062 12 space beat.mp3
063 13 barbarella on microdots.mp3
066 11 slo bird whistle[peel sesh].mp3
084 8 lush ambulance 2.mp3
097 5 sline (jap flute energy rave).mp3
098 35 japan.mp3
108 7 lush slow blips.mp3
109 19 slow early morning.mp3
134 d15-10 dulcimer dub.mp3
143 dsb.mp3
144 hilo.mp3
165 5 scorrier.mp3
169 23 band pass beat slo.mp3
174 7 dub cliker + 0hz.mp3
188 3 Slothscrape.mp3

weird:
013 x-rays.mp3
023 9 square dance.mp3
036 34.5 p.e.mp3
038 archponf.mp3
039 catsquidge2.mp3
043 13 short mental afx.mp3
071 bellbrk.mp3
073 droneBReak.mp3
074 fork rave.mp3
075 how much i wanted you.mp3
076 lanner b4 ardkore.mp3
082 10 shit smothered.mp3
083 5 acid misc.mp3
088 12 phuqed up.mp3
089 15 twister.mp3
090 11 phlangebeat.mp3
091 25 funnel.mp3
092 14 make a baby.mp3
103 3 hollow alias ab6.mp3
110 arrd (25 funnel).mp3
121 thy're here aahha.mp3
135 (throatie).mp3
138 d17-5 synth bonus beats 1.mp3
148 tigercubdelay.mp3
153 T13 quadraverb.mp3
175 24 casiotribaltronics mfm.mp3
177 22 gak bass.mp3

YSI? (j/k)

does anyone know if any of the soundcloud dump is copyrighted

Copyright subsists from the point of creation.